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Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet

The problem here is that greed is situated as an emotional and cultural value, rather than as what it is: a structural component of capitalism.

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Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Power Couples

Power couples are scum multiplied into two.

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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More

The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.

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Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Are Strangers Here: Notes Towards An Anti-Memoir

Excerpt: There was an odd comfort in being a stranger.

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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Liberal Feminists and the Runaway Train of “Statistics”

Statistics are like Rorschach tests; they can be made to reveal anything at all.  

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Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rolling Stone Now Has “Reservations” about Its UVA Rape Story

I want us to think about rape as it happens situationally, not as “rape culture.”

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Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s a Foetus, Not an Unborn Child

The mother is capable of making her own decisions and if she wants to abort a foetus, yes, a foetus for any reason whatsoever, she’s well within her rights to do so.  

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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

Somaly Mam, Nicholas Kristof, and the Real Sex Trafficking Story

Excerpt: Nicholas Kristof’s collected work on sex trafficking constitutes a masturbatory text, allowing do-gooders everywhere to stroke and erect their unspoken desires about rescuing sad, tormented women.

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Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Statue stolen from HBHC Peace Garden again

A statue commemorating the late Mary York, the lesbian attorney and community activist who died of cancer in 2008, has been stolen from the Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) Peace Garden.